Article content If anything, they should have an invincibility complex, not a persecution complex. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ‘That’s what makes me so mad,’ she fumes.” Wynne “lash(es) out at the press for being ‘out to get’ her,” apparently, and “complains the media ‘just seem obsessed’ with the story. were confused that the media thought a police bribery investigation was such a big deal. Indeed, the funniest part of the Star’s account is that Wynne and Co. And the vigour with which they declared themselves vindicated suggested they didn’t much care (or didn’t realize) that the actions caught on tape, even if legal, were by no means remotely salubrious. The explanations the Liberals quickly offered were not particularly convincing, legally speaking: Lougheed claimed he couldn’t have offered Olivier a job because he wasn’t authorized to do so and besides, the party said, Olivier already knew he was being bounced, so it couldn’t possibly have been bribery. To a mere unfrozen caveman voter, it sure sounded like they were throwing around public money on partisan business. Article content They didn’t much care (or didn’t realize) that the actions caught on tape, even if legal, were by no means remotely salubrious. “We should have the broader discussion about that is it that you’d be most interested in doing,” said Sorbara, “whether it’s a full-time or a part-time job in a constituency office, whether it is appointments, supports or commissions, whether it is also going on the exec …” Would-be candidate Olivier released tapes of a telephone conversation in which high-ranking Wynne aide Pat Sorbara and Sudbury Liberal bigwig Gerry Lougheed discussed him dropping out in favour of Glenn Thibeault, who had just defected from the federal New Democrats - and over the course of the conversation, certain “options” came up. But it all makes the truly interesting parts of the report even more so: it seems Wynne and Company were indeed worried about the Sudbury byelection bribery scandal and the ensuing police investigation.
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